The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson... Again

[minor muppetz]

(Pepe appears, wearing a robe and sitting in an armchair. He is in a room filled with bookshelves and books)
Pepe: Good evening, okay. I am Pepe the King Prawn. Tonight, I am going to pay tribute to the six sexiest women whom I would like to sleep with, okay..
(alarms go off and a network censor walks in)
Censor: Alright, prawny! I object to this tribute show....
Pepe: What? But why, okay...
Censor: This is to hot for television.
Pepe: But so is South Park, okay.
Censor: Now, you were promised that you can do a tribute, but not something this vulgar.
Pepe: What?
Censor: No sexy women tributes! But go on with the show, just make it different. (leaves)
Pepe: Uh... Okay, I will now do a tribute to, uh... Uh... I don't know, okay.
(a stand-by screen appears)

(cut backstage, where Kermit, Fozzie, Miss Piggy, Scooter, Robin, and others are seen)
Pepe: Oy! What am I gonna do for a tribute now?
Miss Piggy: Vous could do a tribute to moi.
Pepe: I am not that desperate, okay.
Kermit: Hey, why don't you do a tribute to the one and only Jim Henson?
Pepe: Jim Henson, okay?
All: Yeah!
Pepe: But.. But who is Jim Henson, okay?
Scooter: Oh, that's right, you weren't with us when he was around...
Kermit: Let's get the film footage ready.

(fanfare music starst playing while the title card, "The Mupets Celerbate Jim Henson... Again" is shown)

 

[minor muppetz]

Kermit: Okay, Scooter, turn on the slideshow.
Scooter: Okay, boss!
Pepe: Slideshow?
Kermit: Yes, the slideshow will show pictures of Jim Henson as a child.
Sam the Eagle: It's starting!
All: oh!
(the slideshow shows several images of young Jim Henson)
Fozzie Bear: Jim Henson grew up in lealand mississippi.
Bean Bunny: And he liked cute movies like The Wizard of Oz.
Gonzo: He also liked television, so as soon as he was old enough, he applied for a job at a local telelvison station.
Clifford: And he got to work on a show caled The Junior Good Morning Show.
(a picture of Pierre the French Rat, Longhorn, and Shorthorn are shown)
Pepe: Wait a minute, who are these guys?
Kermit: That's Pierre, and Longhorn, and Shorthorn...
Pepe: But I don't see Jim Henson in those pictures, okay.
Kermit: Well, it's hard to explain. But now the slideshow is over.
Pepe: Already?
Kermit: The Junior Good Morning Show lasted just three weeks, but then in 1955, I met Jim Henson for the first time. He was responsible in me and several other newcomers getting our own show, Sam and Friends.
Bunsen: Let's show some clips, Beaker.
Beaker: Mee mee. (presses button on machine, which shocks Beaker's finger)

(two clips from Sam and Friends are shown: That Old Black Magic and Punsmoke)

(Sam, Harry, Yorrick, and Proffessor Madcliffe show up)

Harry: Hi, Kermit.
Kermit: Oh, hi, Harry, hi, Sam, hi others.
Pepe: Who are these weirdos, okay?
Kermit: These are the cast of Sam and Friends. That's Sam, and that's Harry, and that's Yorrick and Proffessor Madcliff.
(Yorrick attempts to eat Pepe)
Pepe Hey, stop it, okay!
Kermit: Me and Yorrick are the first Muppets to have appeared on national television.
Pepe: That's good, okay. Shoot, Yorrick, shoot!
Kermit: The year was 1957, and we were invited to appear on The Tonight Show.

(a clip from the I've Grown Accustomed to Your Face number is shown)

(Wilkins and Wontkins show up)
Wilkins: Jim Henson soon had us Muppets performing in commercials. The first was for Wilkins Coffee. Let's play the clips.
Wontkins: I don't want to watch them.
(Wilkins holds a machine gun at Wontkins and shots him)

(clips from several Wilkins Coffee commercials are shown)

Wilkins: We also appeared in other commercials.
Wontkins: Basically remaking our Wilkins commercials.

(clips from other commercials featuring Wilkins and Wontkins are shown)

Proffessor Madcliffe: We also had commercials during Sam and Friends. Our sponsor was Esskay Meats.

(clip from an Esskay Meats commercial is shown)

Kermit: The commercial buisness was fun.

(more commercials are shown, including La Choy Chow Mein, Klauses Bread, Royal Crown Cola, and Purina Dog Chow)

Rowlf: I got my start in commercials.
Baskervile: So did I.
Rowlf: Yes, but I am the one who became a star.
Baskerville: I, the victim of the commercials, didn't become a star. How's that for being a victim?
Rowlf: Anyway, I got national televison exposure for being a co-star on The Jimmy Dean Show.

(clips from The Jimmy Dean Show are shown, including:

• Jimmy Dean as a doctor trying to cure Rowlf's hiccups
• Rowlf's nephew meeting Jimm Dean
• Rowlf running for president
• Rowlf meets Lassie
• one of Rowlf and Jimmy Dean's duets (I'm not too familiar with what songs they sang))

Rowlf: I even got more fan mail than the shows star.
Pepe: He must have only gotten one letter, okay.
Rowlf: Anyway, after that show ended I hosted a summer replacement show called Our Place.

(a clip from Our Place is shown)

Kermit: Now, we are forgetting that this tribute is about Jimmy Dean, not Rowlf.
Rowlf: (slightly offended) Oh...
Kermit: During the 1960s, Jim Henson got an agent, who gave us Muppets plenty of TV work.

(clips include:

• Kermit and Chicken Liver lip-synching to "Yes, We Have No Bananas" (on The Today Show)
• Scrap Flyapp (on The Tonight Show)
• Inchworm (on The Jack Paar Show)
• Mama Don't Allow (on, I think, The Dick Calvette Show)
• Beautiful Day Monster's first sketch (on The Ed Sullivan Show))

Kermit: Jim Henson also worked with non-Muppets on a number of films.

(clips from Timepiece, Youth '68, and The Cube are shown)

 

[minor muppetz]

Kermit: During the 1960s, Jim Henson tried to get us Muppets our very own show, and was a bit unsuccessful with that.

(clips from Tales of the Tinkerdee, Land of Tinkerdee, The Wizard of Id, and the Cinderella pilot are shown)

Kermit: But then Jim Henson reluctantly gave us Muppets our biggest break ever in public television...
Grover: Hey, froggy babyyyyy! (slaps Kermit on the back)
Kermit: Aaah!
Grover: How are you today, froggy?
Kermit: Oh, I am doing fine, Grover.
Big Bird: Hello, Kermit.
Kermit: Oh, hi, Big Bird.
Elmo: Hello, Mr. green frog.
Pepe: What are you doing here, okay.
Elmo: Elmo is taking part in the tribute.
Pepe: Oh, fudge.
Cookie Monster: Where are the cookies?
Herry: There are no cookies, Cookie.
Gonzo: Well, welcome, everybody.
Rizzo: I hope I don't have to learn anything.
The Count: I don't know what to count, people or clips.
Kermit: Anyway, I joined the cast of Sesame Street, a popular childrens television series.

(the following clips are shown:

• Kermit talks about the letter W, while Cookie Monster eats it
• Grover gives Kermit ears
• a princess kisses Kermit, and turns into a frog
• Kermit and Susan sing "Three of These Things" (the birds and frog section)
• Kermit and Joey recite the alphabet
• Kermit has Cookie Monster guess what's in his mystery box
• Kermit complains because The Count didn't take him to the seventh floor
• Kermit interviews the tortose and the hare (in their rematch)
• Kermit itnerviews the Miami Mice
• The Big Bad Wolf blows Kermit away while attempting to blow down a straw house
• Bayou Alphabet
• The Heart of a Frog
• My Pollywog Ways
• Kermit and Grover hop for a long and short time
• Kermit draws a Q
• Kermit and Bob talk about frogs
• Carribean Amphibean
• I Wonder About the World Above Up There
• Kermit helps Professor Hastings demonstrate parts of the body
• Kermit, Shola, and Fanny demonstrate "next to"
• Kermit and Brian demonstrate close and apart
• Kermit talsk about hair
• Kermit helps Don Music write Mary Had a Little Lamb
• Dr. Nobel Price shows Kermit his latest invention, a piano
• Kermit and Elmo demonstrate happy and sad
• Grover tries to sell Kermit sunglasses
• This Frog)

Kermit: But don't let it be said that I am the only character on the show.
Oscar: Especially not in the last few seasons (makes mean laugh).
Kermit: But we have, or had, a cast of many others.
Big Bird: Including me.
The Count: And me.
Telly: And me.
Prairie Dawn: And me.
Sherlck Hemlock: And me.
Bert: And me.
Ernie: And me.
Two-Headed Monster: And us.
Mumford: And me.
Elmo: And Elmo.
Cookie Monster: And me.
(a Honker honks his nose, then a Dinger dings his head)
Biff: And me and Sully here.
Kermit: The show has had a great, big cast over the years.

(clips include:

• Do De Rubber Duck
• What's the Name of That Song? (original version)
• Beat the Time with Grover
• Roosevelt Franklin gets his class to excercise
• Ernie pulls Bert's nose off for a clay sculpture
• One Fine Face
• The People in Yoru Neighborhod with a grocer and a doctor
• Windy
• Wide Open Spaces
• Fat Cat
• Ernie counts loud things
• Guy Smiley takes his audience out for lunch
• Bert asks Ernie why he calls his bathtub "rosie"
• Lefty attempts to sell Ernie air
• Ernie and Cookie Monster try to figure out which one is which
• Grover is dissapointed that he climbed 39 stairs and only got to a brick wall
• King Ernie has the Royal Smart Person invent a toothbrush
• Mumford turns Grover into a rabbit
• The Count counts the number of jumps Snuffy makes on a trampoline
• The Count and Cookie Monster count and eat cookies
• The Anyhting in the Whole Ride World Prize Game
• John-John has Grover count a penny
• Yellow Submarine
• Grover and Herry race in "Chariots of Fur"
• The Twiddlebusg plan a trip to the zoo
• Grover works as a singing and dancing waiter
• Fuzzy and Blue
• Count it Higher
• Admiral Bird)

Ernie: Jim Henson also worked on a numbe rof films and cartoons on our show.
Pepe: Really?
Bert: Really. And they are really great. Roll the clips!
Ernie: Yes, roll the clips!

(the first clip appears ina rolling screen transition. Clips include:

• Three Song (Song of Three)
• S claymation with Sam the Snake
• King of 8
• Eleven Cheer
• U-unicorn claymation

Herry: Our show has also had a great number of guest stars.

(clips include:

• Sing After Me with Madeline Kahn and Grover
• U Really Got a Hold of Me with Smokey Robinson
• Bein' Green with Lena Horne and Kermit
• Mr. Rogers shows Big Bird how to tell whether something is real or imaginary
• Stevie Wonder shows Grover the difference between loud and soft
• That Grouchy Face with James Taylor and Oscar)

Big Bird: We've sung many great songs on the show.

(clips include:

• Rubber Duckie
• ABC-DEF-GHI (1980s version)
• C is for Cookie
• Dance Myself to Sleep
• Two G Sounds
• Me Lost Me Cookie at the Disco
• Honk Around the Clock
• Roosevelt Franklin Counts)

Kermit: The success of Sesame Street has also led to a lot fo outside productions.
Oscar: I can't believe that many people woudl watch such garbage.
Pepe: I bet you would, okay.
Grover: We have had specials, live shows, feature films and more.
Ernie: Here are some of them.

(clips:

• Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (from Christmas Eve on Sesame Street)
• Picture a World (from Julie on Sesame Street)
• Big Bird and Barkly at the Great Wall of China (from Big Bird in China)
• Maria explains to Miss Finch that Sesame Street has all kidns of people (from Follow That Bird))

Big Bird: And finally, Sesame Street has extended all ove rthe world.
Alberato: Including mexico.
Basil: And canada.
Kippi Ben Kippod: And other great countries.
Pino: Yeah!

(clip montage of scenes from Plaza Sesamo, Revko Simsim, Sesamstraat, and Sesame Street Canada)

 

[minor muppetz]

Bean Bunny: Those Sesame Street clips were sooooooooooo cute!
Elmo: Yes, they were.
Oscar: Cute? ugh! I'm leaving.
Pepe: Yeah, I don't like cute clips either, okay. Unless the cute factor involves cute women.
Kermit: Anyway, Sesame Street was successful, but due to the educational nature of the program, it prevented Jim Henson from giving us Muppets our own prime time show. But Jim Henson was able to give us our own television specials. Beauregard, play some clips!
Beauregard: Okay, frog. (presses button, but then Beauregard gets tangled up in the film projector)
Pepe: You should have just put in a DVD, okay.
Robin: But not all of Jim Henson's works are available on DVD right now.

(clips are then shown. Clips include:

• Santa Claus locked in a cage with Thig and Thog (from The Great Santa Claus Switch)
• Cinderella and Rufus do the dishes (from Hey Cinderella)
• Frogs (from The Frog Prince)
• We're Traveling Musicians (from The Muppet Musicians of Bremen)
• We're Closer Now Than Ever before/ Brothers (from Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas)
• Meteora song (from The Christmas Toy))

Leo: Just a few seconds ago I heard that not all of Jim Henson's works are available on DVD.
Grump: We came to help.
Leo: You see, right now you can buy all of the Muppet movies on DVD, and soon you can buy special editions of The Dark Crystal and Labrynth.
Grump: And there are already special editions.
Leo: So these will be better speical editions. And the first two seasons of The Muppet Show and Fraggle Rock are available on DVD, with the tird season of Fraggle Rock comming this september eleventh.
Crazy Harry: Did somebody say september eleven?
Sam the Eagle: Will you go away! (grabs Crazy Harry and throws him to the wall)
Leo: Anyway, you can also buy Sesame Street: Old School Vlume 1, featuring the first five season premiers.
Grump: And this october you can buy volume 2, featuring five episodes from 1974-1979. And you can buy every epsidoe of The StoryTeler and The StoryTeller: Greek Myths in one boxed set.
Pepe: But it doens't have any bonus features, okay!
Leo: No, but you can buy every epsiodes of Dinosaurs in two sets, with many great bonus features.
Grump: You just can't buy Muppet Babies on DVD.
Leo; Or The Jim henson Hour, Muppets Tonight, Muppet Time, From the Balcony, Little Muppet Monsters...
Kermit: Hey, Leo, Grump, you two are gettign ahead of the tribute.
Leo and grump: We are?
Kermit: we're only halfway through the 1970s, and this tribute is not intended to sell DVDs.
Grump: Not even the DVD release of Jim Henson's early works that is in the works right now?
Leo: Or even the special edition of Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas, which, I should add, has bonus features...
Kermit: no, no, no. But I'm glad you two are here. We can talk about the Muppet Meetign Films.
Grump: Good idea. Jim Henson produced meeting films featuring us Muppets.
Leo: Companies bought them and showed them during meeting breaks.
Grump: Here are soem clips.

(cut to clips from the first three meeting films)

Kermit: But soon, the Muppets starred in two pilots for The Muppet Show, and here are some clips.
Leo: You can watch the whole pilots on the first two season sets...
Kermit: Will you cut that out?

(clips include:

• I Got Love (from The Muppets Valentines Show)
• Nigel and Sam play a game of scrabble (from The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence))

Rowlf: But unfortunately, the pilots didn't sell right away.
Kermit: Jim Henson met from Muppets from the planet Gortch, and they appeared on Saturday Night Live during the first season.

(the following clips are shown:

• King Ploobis comes to The Mighty Fuvog to solve Queen Peuta's problem)
• Ploobis has a headache
• Ploobis tries to get Wisss to stop smoking craters
• Candice Bergin joins the Muppets christmas party
• Scred and Lily Thomlin sing "I've Got You Babe"
• The Mighty Fuvog tells the others to get in the trunk
• Fuvog tells Chevy Chase to tell Lorne Michaels that if the Muppets return to work, they'll get the Beatles on the show)

Kermit: But they weren't very successful.
Scred: (suddenly comming in) Not very successful is right. We weren't even invited for... (wild audience applause is suddenly heard) Oh, thank you, thank you...
Pepe: Wait a minute.. Where does the applause come from?
King Ploobis: It comes form the applause machine that The Mighty Fuvog gave us.
Kermit: uh, Scred, Ploobis, whata re you doing here?
King Ploobis: We came here for historical sake, and if you give Scred billing before me again I'll crush you to death.
Scred: hey, he can't help it if I was a bigger star than you.
King Ploobis: Then I'll crush you. (squeazes Scred's face)
Pepe: But I am a star now, okay.
Elmo: But not as big a star as Elmo.
Rowlf: Aren't we forgetting about the Muppets first big star?
Miss Piggy: And that is moi.
Kermit: (scrunching face) Good grief.

 

[minor muppetz]

Kermit: Luckily, Jim Henson met a man named Lord Lew Grade who was willing to give us Muppets our very own variety show.
Miss Piggy: And it was shot in England. You know, out of town.
Scooter: And it was the greatest television show ever.
Pepe: No it wasn't.
Fozzie: Wh-what do you mean, Pepe?
Pepe: If it was the greatest show ever, then why wasn't I in it, okay?
Kermit: Anyway, here are some clips.

Clips include:

• The end of the theme song (starting with Kermit saying "It's time to get things started...) (and with Gonzo getting blown up by Crazy Harry after blowing his horn)
• Fozzie has Kermit read the introduction that he'd written (from the Harry Belafonte episode)
• Pigs in Space: weight problems (from the Alan Arkin episode)
• The Cat Came Back (from the Linda Ronstadt episode)
• The Swedish Chef prepares frogs legs (from the Lou Rawls episode)
• Muppet News Flash: beef falls dramatically (from the Melissa Manchester episode)
• Happy Feet (from the Madeline Kahn episode)
• Mahna Mahna (from the Juliet Prowse episode)
• Good Grief, the Comedians a Bear! (from the Harvey Korman episode)
• Tenderly (from the Avery Scrieber episode)
• Ukelelee Lady (from the Lou Rawls episode)
• I Love the Fish I'm With (from the Mummenshaz episode)
• You and I and George (from the Juliet Prowse episode)
• The Varsity Drag (from the Steve Martin episode)

Waldorf: Well, we get to see footage from when we were younger.
Statler: Uh, Waldorf.
Waldorf: What?
Statler: We haven't aged since then.
(they both laugh)
Pepe: Well, those clips are very interesting. But what did Jim Henson do on that show?
Kermit: Oh, well, he was the producer, and one of the writers.
Dr. Teeth: And he also had his hands in another job, though I'm not quite sure what it was. Do you remember, Kermit?
Kermit: No, I don't. But here are some more clips.

Clips include:

• Another Opening, Another Show (from the Mac Davis episode)
• Muppet Labs: elevador shoes (from the Kris Kristofferson and Rita Cooledge episode)
• We've Got Each Other (from the John Cleese episode)
• The Happy Wanderers (from the John Denver episode)
• Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavour on the Bedpost Overnight? (from the Charles Aznavour episode)
• Veterinarian's Hospital: Robin (from the Linda Lavin episode)
• Lady of Spain (from the Rita Moreno episode)
• Sam the Eagle talks about ecology (from the Julie Andrews episode)
• Danny Boy (from the Wally Boag episode)
• Rockin' Robin (from the Jean Pierre-Rampal episode)
• Muppet Sports: wig racing (from the Marrissa Berensen episode)
• Bear on Patrol: impersonating an officer (from the Leslie Uggams episode)
• Some Enchanted Evening (from the Avery Scrieber episode)
• Java (from the Ethel Merman episode)
• Blackbirds (from the Joan Baez episode)
• Friendship (from the Chris Langham episode)
• Gonzo eats a tire (from the Juliet Prowse episode)
• Raggmopp (from the Lena Horne episode)
• Miss Piggy tries to get J.P. Grosses attention (from the Judy Collins episode)
• Muppet Labs: gorilla detector (from the Avery Scrieber episode)
• Kermit tells the others to knock off the "knock it off"'s (from the Florence Henderson episode)
• The Rhyming Song (from the Loretta Lynn episode)
• In a Little Spanish Town (from the Bruce Forsyth episode)
• There Are Millions fo Us Who Are Ugly (from the Milton Berle episode)

Scooter: The Muppet Show also had a good amount of guest stars.
Lew Zealand: Some of the greatest names in show buisness.
Miss Piggy: Espeically my name.
Bunsen: Here are some of those guest stars.
Rizzo: yeah, I can't wait to watch.

clips include:

• Turn the World Around with Harry Belafonte
• John Cleese stertches Gonzo's arms and legs
• School's Out with Alice Cooper
• Rocky Top with Roy Clark
• Rich Little gets interviewed by the press
• Paul Williams finds out that he's not the tallest person on the show
• Zero Mostel reads his "Fears" poem
• What Would You Say? with Kaye Ballard
• Whenever I Call You Friend with Melissa Manchester
• Nice Girl Like Me with Sandy Duncan
• Fever with Rita Moreno
• Rubber Band Man with Lynda Carter
• Last Dance with Leslie Ann Warren
• He's the Greatest Dancer with Lola Falona
• Someone Just Like You with Raquel Welch

Pepe: Wow! I can't believe that you could get such hot chicks back then, okay!
Gonzo: We also got a lot of great chickens.
Camilla: Bawk bawk.
Gonzo: Right, Camilla, roll the chicken clips!
Beaker: mee mee! (presses button)

clips include:

• Baby Face (from the Edgar Bergen episode)
• two chickens play chimes (from the Pearl Bailey episode)
• Gonzo sings "Camilla" (cut off before Big Bird appears) (from the Leslie Uggams episode)
• The Swedish Chef prepares "chicken in the basket" (from the Raquel Welch episode)
• Chickens play "Down at Papa Joe's" on the piano (from the Edgar Bergen episode)
• chicken western (from the Petula Clark episode)

Statler: What did you think of those clips?
Waldorf: I'd say they're for the birds!
(they both laugh)

 

[minor muppetz]

Janice: Like, what rully great memories.
Floyd: Yeah, we had a lot of fun on that show.
Pepe: Oh, I know what you mean, okay! (giggles innappropriatley)
Bunsen: nyway, we then became stars in our own rights, and appeared in a lot of productions besides The Muppet Show.

clips include:

• Kermit's opening monologue (from The Tonight Show in 1979)
• Calendar Song (from The Miss Piggy Show)
• the Muppets meet Mickey Mouse (from The Muppets at Walt Disney World)
• The Twelve Days of Christmas (starting from the final verse) (from A Christmas Together)
• We're Going Camping (from Rocky Mountain Holiday)
• Happy Holidays (from A Muppet Family Christmas)
• Being a Cartoonist is Fun (from Wow, You're a Cartoonist)
• Fozzie tells Luncheon Counter Monster a knock knock joke (from Hey, You're as Funny as Fozzie Bear)
• Fozzie finds a saxaphone and a bomb (from Muppet Moments)
• Silent Strawberries (from The Muppets Go to the Movies)
• Hurray for Hollywood (from The Muppets Go Hollywood)
• Dr. Teeth has Beaker promise he won't set off an explosion again (from Rock Music with the Mupets)
• Music Mon (from Sing-Along, Dance-Along, Do-Along)
• The Rainbow Connection (from The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years)

Miss Piggy: But we also had something much bigger: a movie career!
Kermit: That's right, and Lew Grade gave Jim henson the money to put us in our first feature film, The Muppet Movie.

clips include:

• Kermit introduces the movie
• Moving Right Along
• Gonzo flies with balloons
• Miss Piggy battles Doc Hopper's henchmen
• Kermit has a showdown with Doc Hopper
• The Magic Store

Rizzo: I really hate The Muppet Movie.
Pepe: Why, okay?
Rizzo: Because I wasn't in it.
Fozzie: But The Muppet Movie was very successful, and we've appeared in many more movies.
Kermit: Jim Henson made three movies with us. He produced The Mupet Movie, and then he directed our next film, The Great Muppet Caper.
Miss Piggy: The first time that happened.

clips include:

• The First Time it Happens
• Happiness Hotel
• Couldn't We Ride
• Gonzo gets a taxi
• Miss Piggy fights Nicky Holiday and the jewell thieves

Rizzo: And then he was the executive producer of our third movie, The Muppets Take Manhattan.

clips include:

• Right Where I Belong (the part of the song where they enter the stage)
• Kermit has the rats do a whispering campaing
• Lew Zealand goes to Scooter's theater
• Animal attacks Murray Plotsky
• Rat Scat
• the wedding sequence

Miss Piggy: And that's why that is one of my favorite movies to be in.
Kermit: That movie was also responsible for a very memorable sequence in which some of us Muppets appear as babies.

(cut to I'm Gonna Always Love You)

Fozzie: And then we appeared as animated babies.
Gonzo: Even though we really first met as adults, I think.
Scooter: And the world was first introduced to my currently long-lost sister, Skeeter.
Rowlf: And it proves that I coudl play the piano as a baby.

clips include:

• Mupet Babies theme song (short version)
• TV Mania (from I Want My Mupet TV)
• The Mupet Babies Star Wars film (from Gonzo's Video Show)
• Piggy unknowingly eats one of Rowlf's dog food sandwhiches (from Good Clean Fun)
• Kermit's Sesame Street-like show (from Gonzee's Playhouse Channel)
• You're Special to Me (from My Mupet Valentine)
• The Muppets line up by a door to see if they can find Animal, only for Gonzo to find a spider (from Raiders of the Lost Muppet)
• Super Gonzo and Animal (from Noisy Neighbors)
• Weirdos on the Roll (from Musical Muppets)
• the babies meet young Janice (from Whose Tale is it Anyway)
• Skeeter (as Snow White) meets the seven dwarfs (from Snow White and the Seven Muppets)
• Statler and Waldorf imagine themselves a scavemen (from Babies of Invention)
• Kermit imagiens himself as Humpty Dumpty (from Goosetown Babies)
• The babies take a tour of the movie section of Babyland (from Eight Flags Over the Nursery)
• Fozie in a comic strip (from The Daily Mupept)
• a Mupet Babies version of Peanuts (from Comic Capers)
• The Future is Counting on You (from Muppet Babies: The Next Generation)

Boo Monster: And afte rthat, me, Tug, and Molly got our own show.
Molly: Putting the Muppets in more animated adventures.
Tug: While we also got our own show.

(variosu clips from Little Muppet Monsters are shown)

Kermit: Of course, it was Jim Henson's idea for your show tog et cancled.
Monsters: What?
Tug: What an outrage!
Moly: I'm leaving.
Boo: Let's see if we can picket the Disney company to put us on DVD.
Molly: Good idea.

 

[minor muppetz]

Matt Fraggle: Of course, Jim Henson's greatest accomplishment was producing a telelvision show that took place in my home town, Fraggle Rock.
Sprocket: Woof woof!
Matt Fraggle: Aaah!
Rowlf: Easy, boy!
Sprocket: woof.
Pepe: I've never heard of Fraggle Rock, okay.
(everybody stares at Pepe)
All: (shocked) You've never heard of Fraggle Rock?
Pepe: (now embarrassed) Uh... No.
Clifford: The first two seasons have been released on DVD. Have you been living in a cave?
Matt Fraggle: Fraggle Rock is like a cave...
Pepe: He was asking me, okay. Anyway, I have not been living in a cave, but there have been other, um, DVDs that I've been interested in.
Matt Fraggle: Well, Fraggle Rock is filled with Fraggles like me.
Boppity: Did he say there are Frackles there?
Gloat: No, you dim wit, he said Fraggles.
Boppity: Oh...
Matt Fraggle: There are lots of Fraggles, including my nephew Gobo, the wembling Wembly, the energetic Red, the sensual Mokey, and the scarred Boober.

clips include:

• Fraggle Rock Theme (first verse)
• Catch the Tail by the Tiger (from Catch the Tail by the Tiger)
• Working (from 30 Minute Work Week)
• Wembly uses doozer constructions to make music (from Beginnings)
• Cnvincing John convinces the fraggles to eat doozer buildings again (from The prechification of Convincing John)
• a scene from Mokey and the Minstrels
• a scene from Sprockets Big Adventure
• Follow Me (from Beginnings)
• Wembly and Boober find rollies (from The Perfect Blue Rollie)
• See a Beetle (from I Want to Be You)
• Friendship Song (from Marooned)
• Friends 'Till the End
• You Can't Do That Without a Hat (from You Can't Do That Without a Hat)
• Wembly flies around Fraggle Rock (from Wembly's Flight)
• What Time it Is
• a scene from Uncle Matt Returns
• The Rock Goes On (from the Honks of Honks)

Matt Fraggle: I have explored outside of Fraggle Rock many times, and sent post cards to my nephew Gobo.

(clips from some of Traveling Matt's post card sequences are shown)

Matt Fraggle: And the world of Fraggle Rock also has other creatures, most notably the Doozers.

clips include:

• Yes We Can (from All Work, All Play)
• Doozer March Song (from The Great Radish Famine)
• Gobo and Cotterpin find the first doozer caves (from The Cavern of Lost Dreams)
• The Doozers get eaten by a giant blob (from Boober and the Giant Blob)
• four additional Doozer clips

Matt Fraggle: And finally, there are the giant Gorgs.

clips include:

• Goomba Goo (from Blanket of Snow, Blanket of Woe)
• Dumb Son of a Gun
• the Gorgs have a trial for the Fraggles they caught (from Wembly and the Gorgs)
• Junior and Pa try to get out of going into the basement (from Believe it or Not)
• three additoonal Gorg scenes
• a sceen from The Gorg Who Would Be King

Matt Fraggle: And most importantly...
Kermit: All of the main species eventually found peace with oen another?

(cut to the song A World of Harmony, from The Great Radish Famine)

Matt Fraggle: Actually, I was referring to the fact that us Fraggles got our own animated series.

(five clips from the animated Fraggle Rock are shown)

 

[minor muppetz]

Kermit: Of course, Jim Henson also formed a company called Jim Henson's Creature Shop.
Pepe: Oh, I think I've heard of this so-called "creature shop", okay.
Kermit: Good. Well, anyway, the creature shop was responsible for creating realistic animatronic characters.
Fozzie: Wait a minute, they were animatronics? I thought they were real people?
Statler: Well, at least they are more real than you!
(Statler and Waldorf laugh)
Kermit: Anyway, Jim Henson directed two movies from the creature shop. One was called The Dark Crystal.
Sam the Eagle: And don't forget that Jim Henson directed that with the one and only Frank Oz.
Kermit: That's right, though Mr. Oz doesn't really consider himself a director of that...
Sam the Eagle: Still, he qualifies.
Miss Piggy: That's right, Kermie.

clips include:

• Jen is told about the crystal shard
• Jen meets Kira and Fizzgig
• Jen gets captured by Agatha
• a Skeksis scene

Gonzo: After that, Jim Henson directed another fantasy film, called Labrynth.
Pepe: I never liked Labrynth, okay.
Rizzo: How can you not like Labrynth?
Clifford: Yeah, Labrynth was a very tight movie, with the very tight Jennifer Conelly.
Pepe: Oh, I agree with you there.
Janice: And, like, don't forget about the very tight David Bowie.
Pepe: Oh, I gotta disagree with you there.
Sam the Eagle: And I have got to agree with the prawn. Hmm, that's probably a first.
Kermit: But Labrynth has some great scenes.

clips include:

• Sarah talks to the worm
• guards tell Sarah that one of them always tells the truth, and oen always lies
• Chilly Down
• Magic Dance

Rowlf: And then, Jim Henson was involved with a series called The StoryTeller. Unfortunately, Henson didn't cast me in the role of the dog.

clips include:

• The StoryTeller's introduction to "Hans, My Hedgehog"
• A scene from Hans, My Hedgehog
• The soldier plays cards with a group of devils (frm The Soldier and Death)
• The StoryTeller plays a game of dice with a beggar (from A Story Short)
• Fearnot is sent to find soem fear (from Fearnot)
• The Heartless Giant tells the prince where his heart really is (from The Heartless Giant)
• The Prince finds the heart and threatens to destroy it if the giant doens't free his friends (from The Heartless Giant)

 

[minor muppetz]

Kermit: By the end of the 1980s, Jim Henson was involved with one of his most ambitious television projects ever, The Jim Henson Hour. Originally, he planned on giving it a certain monthly structure, which didn't go as planned.

(cut to Jim Henson explaining what type of shows would be done each week of the month, from the behind-the-scenes portion of Inner Tube)

Clifford: However, it was a really great show.
Bean Bunny: I was the cutest thing on there.
Kermit: Here is a clip from Jim henson's first itnroduction on the show.

(cut to Jim Henson's introduction from Science Fiction)

Digit: Us Muppets got our very own half-hour segmnet.
Vicki: It was in the first half of eight episodes.
Leon: And it was called MuppeTelevision.
Kermit: That's right. And here are some clips.

clips include:

• Kermit, Lindberg, and Waldo go inside Digit's brain (from Science Fiction)
• Rowlf, as Merlin, becomes Elvis
• The Music Just Keeps on Rolling Along (from Musicians)
• Sweet Vacation (from Monster Telethon)
• Kermit is mad at the band for playing music in the studio (from Food)
• Uh Oh, Here She Comes (form Aquatic Life)
• My Dinner with Codzillia (from Science Fiction)
• I Love Trash (from Garbage)
• Fozzie becomes a weatherbear on The Today Show (from Monster Telethon)
• Vicki tells Kermit about how she watched the Muppets when she was little (from The Ratings Game)
• Bobby McFerrin and the graffitti Muppets (from The Ratings Game)

Kermit: But it was more than just MuppeTelevison.
Gonzo: The StoryTeller often appeared in the second half.
Pepe: The StoryTeller again! okay?
Kermit: Well, we don't have to show more of those clips. But we also had a variety of specials, both half-hour and full hour.

(clips from Monster Maker, Dog City, Miss Piggy's Hollywood, The Song of the Cloudforrest, Lighthouse Island, and The Secrets of the Muppets are shown)

 

[minor muppetz]

Kermit: But shortly after after The Jim Henson Hour was cancled, Jim Henson died of pneumonia.
Pepe: How sad, okay.
Fozzie: Yes, very sad.
Clifford: We waited to go to the hospital, and when he went there, it was too lated.
Fozzie: At least he didn't see Dr. Bob.
Kermit: But his life and memory lives on.

(various clips from Henson productions made after Jim Henson's death are shown)

Kermit: The creature shop has made creatures for various movies, including Buddy, God Boy, and Mirrormask.
Rizzo: And his creature shop was responsile for a show that's probably more ambitious than The Jim Henson Hour. It was calld Dinosaurs.
Link Hogthrob: And there was another science fiction show, caled Farscape.
Clifford: And the company's working on computer animated shows such as The Skrumps.
Fozzie: And several puppeteers from the company are working on improv, such as "Pupet Up Uncensored", and "Late Night Buffet with Augie and Del".
Elmo: Sesame Street is also still on the air.
Big Bird: We've had such new characters as Zoe, Abby Cadabby, and Baby Bear.
Grover: And such great outside productions as The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, The Street We Live on, CinderElmo, and of course, A Celebration of Me, Grover.
Kermit: And us Muppets have been very active as well. We've appeared in The Muppet Christmas Carol, Muppet Treasure Island, Muppets From Space, Kermit's Swamp Years, It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, The Muppets Wizard of Oz, Muppets Tonight, Muppet Time, Muppet TV...
Statler: And me and Waldorf have hosted From the Balcony.
Waldorf: A very decent web series.

(clips are no longer shown)

Kermit: And there are a lot of top secret Muppet productions in the works...
Fleet Scribbler: Oh, what a headline! "Top-Secret Muppet Productions!"
Kermit: And let's not forget the great people Jim Henson worked with.
Pepe: Like who?
Kermit: Well, there was his wife, Jane, and kids, Lisa, Cheryl, Brian, Hetaher, and John. There were such great puppeteers as Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Dave Goelz, Kathy Mulen, Karen Prell, Lousie Gold, Fran Brill, Caroll Spinney, Kevin Clash, Martin Robinson...
Rizzo: And don't forget about Steve Whitmire.
Kermit: Uh, I won't forget about Steve Whitmire, Rizzo, he shared a birthday with Jim, among other thing they have in common.
Sam the Eagle: And don't forget to thank Jerry Juhl, Don Shalin, and David Lazer.
Kermit: Well, it looks like you already did.
Pepe: This is great, okay! Now I have material for my tribute!
Kermit: Uh, Pepe...
Pepe: What?
Kermit: The tribute is over.
Pepe: What?
Gonzo: We've had cameras on abck here the whole time.
Harvey Kneeslaper: We all puled a joke on you! (laughs hysterically)
Pepe: Well, the joke is on me, okay.
Harvey Kneeslapper: No, (puts the word "JOKE" on Pepe's head) Now the joke's on you! (lauhgs harder)

(credits roll)